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But were the zines evidence of a crime? I haven't been able to find any indication in the public records that they were. If on Saturday my brother gets arrested and on Monday befor…

The problem I see here is that many of the things in the "Things that would break the promise" section are pretty much guaranteed to occur - we don't have effective mechanisms to p…

Sometimes, the point of argument is not to convince the ego-driven person you're arguing with, but the others who are watching.

> If someone called you up and told you that the magazine contained evidence of a crime, the police ard looking for them, and asked you to hide the magazines, would your assumption…

> The 30 year sentence was for hiding documentation being sought under a federal warrant Can you cite a source to support the claim that the stuff he transported was being sought u…

See https://freedes.net to join the community in support of Des. (That's Mr. Estrada, not Data Encryption Standard)

We cannot rely on millions of individual workers to take expensive stands on principle. And they shouldn't have to. It's an essential duty for lawmakers and regulators to design th…

By playing this game I'm helping to train AI how to be less detectable?

>Who benefits from AI is smaller businesses who could not afford custom application development at previous development costs. Of course, as AI reduces the cost to operate in niche…

I agree with you that it's about tradeoffs. The cost ($$$, opportunity cost, and mental toll) of maintenance is very real. It can be hugely advantageous to outsource that effort to…

Alcohol is harmful, and you want to prevent minors from obtaining it without parental supervision. Do you pass a law requiring every car to log the age of every occupant in case th…

A security camera, on its own, doesn't tell the grocery store who you are. There was a time when CCTV didn't even exist and yet we still had commerce. "What we've got" isn't "the b…

If the definition of "fun" sites doesn't even include anything with a login (no youtube, no forums, no HN...), then it feels like it includes so little as to be meaningless. The "b…

I don't think separate browsers is a very effective mitigation. If both browsers are running on the same machine, from the same ip address, using the same email address for logins,…

> You cannot have a functioning "Business Internet" without identity verification. Yes, you can. Just like you can have a functioning grocery store without checking the identity of…

Is there any effective way to signal to the users who care that your product is committed to Free/Libre Open source principles without also making it sound lame?

It has been truly frustrating when arms dealers are punished for what is essentially reckless behavior from warlords, dictators, and drug cartels.

I think the HN crowd is especially vocal about the tech industry in particular because that's the industry a lot of us have first-hand knowledge of - we know from personal observat…

> Your location is still being leaked potentially, for example, by your car. Your car also has a cellular modem which leaks your location, and you probably signed a contract allowi…

This is long overdue. Cisco's decade-long refusal to deliver binaries, or even hashes of the binaries, over an https connection astounds me.

Developing in the open would make contributions from the community way more viable, would give the public the ability to see what's coming and prepare for it, would increase the li…

The "details" in the article are pretty scant. Curious how this actually works.

Counterexample: TextNow offers a "free"(ad-supported) mobile phone service, yet people overwhelmingly prefer to pay for T-Mobile.